RE: [cobalt-users] RaQ 550 easy questions: CGI, e-mail files, hom e directories

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3) Here`s the big one...can`t get any CGIs to run, at all.  Here is the
resultant error message through a browser:

"Internal Server Error
 The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
to complete your request. Your administrator may not have enabled CGI access
for this directory."

I`ve looked through the mailing list archives for almost four hours
straight, so as to not pester people with questions already answered.  None
of the answers I found, however, seem to help me at all here.  I have set up
and run Apache perfectly fine before, on several Linux flavours (including
an old Cobalt RaQ 1), and never had this problem.  Apache documentation is
not helping, I think I`m following it to the letter but it doesn`t help.
Cobalt`s documentation only seems to cover the graphical interface.

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Probably the most common problem when trying to run perl scripts.


#1 - Make sure that it is executable! 

[root pass]# ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x    1 brian    site44       9937 Jul  8 12:44 passman.pl

(That is the +x), if not .. chmod +x passman.pl

#2 - Trying running it locally, just to make sure it works:

[root pass]# ./passman.pl 
(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)

If it says the above, try the below:

[root pass]# ./passman.pl d=d
Content-Type: text/html
* :: snip :: *

#3 - Make sure the file is OWNED by the site's admin! (see above ex.).
brian is the site admin of the box, and via the cgi-wrapper is allowed
to run it.

If 1-3 pass just fine, next check your error logs, and see what it is
complaining about!

tail -f /var/log/httpd/error

Refresh your browser, and read through the logs.

Following these steps should assist you in figuring out what is wrong with
your script!

Thanks,
Brian